Mapping a Landscape of Incompetence, Fear and Politics
Publication Autumn 2010
The global journey of HIV reflects – mostly badly – on all of us.
AIDS is a preventable disease, so why haven't we prevented it? The world's response is mired in misogyny, global institutions' irresponsibility, and in the fascinating minutiae of sex, drugs, money, morals, politics, religion, land, water, war, violence, food, corporate policy, disability issues, geopolitical realities...and much more.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been an emergency for more than 25 years. More than 25 million people have died and 33 million are infected. We can stop the pandemic, if we ask the right questions and have the courage to map the right answers.
This unique atlas examines HIV’s astounding impact on the world, showing how inequity and injustice fostered its spread and still undermines efforts to control it. And, in a series of unique route maps to an AIDS-free world, it presents the roll-out of treatment, the shortfall of resources, and access to prevention of every kind.
Stephen Lewis
is author of the best-selling book, Race Against Time.
Previously Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and the first Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, he is currently co-director of AIDS-Free World, Professor in Global Health at McMaster University, chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
He has been awarded 28 honorary degrees from Canadian universities and, in 2005, TIME Magazine listed him among the World’s 100 Most Influential People.
Paula Donovan
is co-director of AIDS-Free World. She was Senior Advisor in the Office of the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa through December 2006. She was manager of communications and advocacy for a joint UNICEF/World Health Organization global campaign to end the illegal promotion of infant formula and protect women’s rights to breastfeed. She has worked in Nairobi for both UNICEF and UNIFEM. She organized the "International Women's AIDS Run" in Kenya.
Sohaila Abdulali
is Director of Communications at AIDS-Free World. She has published two novels, several children’s books, short stories, essays, journalism pieces, scientific papers, and development reports. She ran a communications and fundraising programme for Oxfam in India She has edited computer manuals, health care manuals, and books on hedge funds, women’s activism, and human rights. She is on the board of Point of View, a women’s media group in Mumbai. She has worked as a bookseller, an ice-cream scooper, a sleep technician and an industrial spy.
Joni Seager
is Professor and Chair of Global Studies at Bentley University in Boston. She has achieved international acclaim for her work in feminist environmental policy analysis, the environmental costs of militaries and militarism, and global political economy. She is the author of many books, including four editions of the award-winning Atlas of Women in the World, two editions of The State of the Environment Atlas and Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis, and co-author with Cynthia Enloe of Who Do We Think We are: Mapping the Myths and Realities of America. Recently she has worked as a consultant to the United Nations Environment Programme to undertake a gender assessment of their environmental work. She is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee for Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project (GECHS) of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
